We continue with our Dadly Best of the Week: the best podcasts, articles, book chapters, interviews, quotes, recipes, eating establishments, etc. that warrant attention.  So, here goes this week’s I Am Dadly Best of the Week.

Best Podcast #1

Positive U: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone to Get Better with Chip Kelly

On this episode Jon Gordon interviews former Oregon head coach and current UCLA coach Chip Kelly. Kelly offers great insight into building a great team, achieving greatness, stepping out of your comfort zone and why he hates the term culture.

Best Article

What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written a terrific profile of Val Kilmer this week.  Kilmer’s memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, has recently come out.  It is a memoir I’m anxious to read.  In the profile, Brodesser-Akner writes:

“By now I understood that the story I was telling about Val Kilmer, which I’d thought had been about a man’s relentless faith and optimism, was really about reconciliation: the squaring of two opposing things into something we swear is true despite all evidence to the contrary. Your beauty can sentence you to misery; Val Kilmer uses a tracheostomy tube, but he can talk.”

My favorite Kilmer movies are ranked below:

1. Heat
2. Top Secret
3. Willow
4. Tombstone
5. The Saint

Best ReWatchable Movie

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I rewatched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button this past week and had forgotten how enjoyable the movie is.  The movie evokes emotion, remembrance, joy and inspiration.  This quote from the movie is something we can all draw from.  In the scene, Benjamin Button is speaking to his daughter through a flashback of his life as she reads his journal:

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” – Benjamin Button